Of the wind and the rain

I am looking forward to that treadmill arriving, especially on a day like today. Today we have 50-60 mph winds, intermittent rain. Miserable out there. I'm sitting here quietly in the living room listening to the wind chimes dance. 

My only meeting today was a check in with a colleague, and she canceled because there wasn't anything on her agenda. She is all business, we don't chit chat very much. I don't know much about her personally except little mentions or suggestions she gives off. So if there isn't anything business to talk about, we don't just meet and kee kee (as another colleague says we do when we have nothing work-wise to chat about). 

Unlike my work wife and work son, who I can talk to all day. My work wife is off all week this week (and was last week!) and I am pining for her just to shoot the shit. My work son and I have a meeting set for tomorrow afternoon, I booked an hour, some real work and some blah blah blah to book end it all. 

So I checked out of work for a while around 2, and went to the gym. It was very quiet there. I parked myself in front of the TVs showing Friends and Castle side by side. No politics and news for me! Because it was middle of the workday, I just took the half hour and didn't push it further even though I wanted to, and we weren't going to get to walk the dog today. 

Didn't talk to John today but got email that my packages are en route to him. the HP sauce will arrive tomorrow, Malt Vinegar Wednesday. I know we could have asked one of his college friends to stop and pick some up but HP is often not in the regular supermarkets, and I figured it was just better and faster if I ordered it for him. 

Oh - and Doug got our gas fireplace to work. He's been futzing with this for a week or so. I need him to do other things like caulk the bathtub but .... he wanted this to work before when we were in our super cold snap. At least, now she's running. And maybe tomorrow I can bring up the caulk. 

Jess arrives in about 48 hours, so there is stuff to do to get ready. Geoff did some of the grocery shopping but Doug will finish up what needs bought for the Traditional New Years Day feast. Doug took Wednesday and Friday off, I took off Friday. Ready for our little family visit and getting back together.

Digits below our fancy ass fireplace! 

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours. Gym treadmill 30 min/1.72 mi. 10k+ steps by bedtime.

blood glucose:

8am: 118
4:45pm: 92
10pm: 128

food & meds:
8am: phentermine+jardiance
9:45am: 2 christmas cookies
11:45am: bowl of mac & cheese w/hamburger
1:30pm: met+glip
3:15pm: Atkins protein shake, some mixed nuts
5:30pm: ham & swiss noddle casserole (a la a Geoff recipe) with peppers and onions (realllllly good!) 
8:30pm: met+glip